Author: Botgirl Questi

A beautiful thought experiment.
 3 Comments on Objectification
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Objectification

‘Objectification’ is this week’s prompt for the Single Frame Stories Challenge. Each Saturday we offer a new…

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Lulu was having second thoughts

Whiskey Monday and I launched the Single Frame Stories challenge a few weeks ago, inviting participants to create a…

 2 Comments on Confession of Faith
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Confession of Faith

Another perspective on recent discussions here on the perception of beauty, the projection of identity and the…

 11 Comments on What Identity Is(n’t)
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What Identity Is(n’t)

Finding Yourself from Botgirl Questi on Vimeo. Identity can be many things: costume, tool, vehicle, weapon, armor,…

 10 Comments on Why I Create
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Why I Create

Why do I create? Because I’m compelled to. The unrelenting urge has been with me as far…

 9 Comments on One Frame Storytelling: The tortured non-artist effect
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One Frame Storytelling: The tortured non-artist effect

There was a thread on Twitter yesterday about art being a natural human capability rather than the…

 4 Comments on Meditation on The Burning House Meme
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Meditation on The Burning House Meme

The Burning House asks people: If your house was burning, what would you take with you? It’s…

 6 Comments on My Genetic Muse
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My Genetic Muse

This is my Aunt Natalie with two of her five hundred dolls. In addition to being an…

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When the going gets surreal . . .

  “Life: Surreal and Real” is the video version of two stories I wrote for Sunday’s Relay…

 4 Comments on Enter a 3D Virtual World in Less than a Minute
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Enter a 3D Virtual World in Less than a Minute

If you’re using Chrome or Firefox, this link will take you directly into my Pixels and Plastic…

 4 Comments on If a Naked Mannequin is Shot from a Cannon in an Empty Sim is it still Art?
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If a Naked Mannequin is Shot from a Cannon in an Empty Sim is it still Art?

David W. Galenson describes two types of artists in “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life…

 8 Comments on Prudence vs Dr. Muse
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Prudence vs Dr. Muse

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Mixed Reality Video From 2008

I made this video just a few months after being born in Second Life. The special effects…

 9 Comments on When the Fourth Wall Falls
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When the Fourth Wall Falls

I’ve lost count of the times I’ve demolished the fourth wall since I posted the original version…

 1 Comment on Creative Archaeology 101
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Creative Archaeology 101

I’ve been writing songs for as far back as I can remember. My earliest childhood memories include…

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Topless at Whole Foods

Project Glass is a glimpse of not-so-distant future. And so is this video clip shot with Blue…

 9 Comments on Cherrybomb: The Band That Never Was
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Cherrybomb: The Band That Never Was

  Some people don’t see a connection between truth and fiction. I get that. But the truth…

 1 Comment on 2011 VWBPE Keynote on Virtual Identity
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2011 VWBPE Keynote on Virtual Identity

This is a recording of a presentation my human counterpart and I made together at the 2011…

 3 Comments on I Share Therefore I Am
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I Share Therefore I Am

Every single tweet we send, no matter what its overt topic, is part of an ongoing story…

 8 Comments on No one can steal my identity (in heaven)
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No one can steal my identity (in heaven)

This is a strange little surrealist trip juxtaposing fluid avatar image deconstruction with a gospel song about…

 5 Comments on Pictures Don’t Tell Stories
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Pictures Don’t Tell Stories

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to animal or non-living things, phenomena, material states and objects…

 6 Comments on Primates in Virtual Worlds
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Primates in Virtual Worlds

No matter how fully-immersed humans are within a virtual world, avatars are primates at heart (and brain.)…

 6 Comments on Transworld Syndrome
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Transworld Syndrome

  This is a strange little contemplation on virtual identity in the form of a conversation between…

 23 Comments on What If Rod Was One Of Us (Parody song & Video)
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What If Rod Was One Of Us (Parody song & Video)

If Rod had an alt who spent a lot of time
Inside of Second Life just hanging out
In clubs and chatting with his friends
Would he still think the same or see things different